Right now, most IMTS exhibitors are focused on last-minute booth details. Those things matter, but the biggest factor to your success is much simpler: Do the right people show up at your booth, and do you collect the right leads to justify your investment?
New orders of metalworking machinery totaled $672.7 million in June 2026, increasing 15.6% from May 2026 and 56.8% from June 2025. In the first half of 2026, orders totaled $3.44 billion, the strongest half-year since USMTO began collecting data in 1998.
China’s machinery output is climbing while capital spending narrows as growth shifts from whole machines to the components, tooling, and aftermarket work that AMT members supply.
The AM market is projected to reach $20.3 billion by 2030, but growth is shifting toward proven applications, production value, and disciplined investment.
Elite shops win more business and have better margins, and the difference isn’t that they’re bigger or better funded.
Some of the hottest inspiration in manufacturing streaming is IMTS+, the digital home of IMTS. Featuring international award-winning original programming, IMTS+ spotlights the people, processes, and ideas driving manufacturing forward.
From global technology leaders and pioneering manufacturers to astronauts, investors, and innovators, the ETC and the IMTS+ Main Stage will feature the people shaping the future of manufacturing.
At IMTS 2026, industrial AI moves from emerging trend to defining theme. It will be present across every building and discipline and, for the first time, the subject of its own dedicated arena and full-day conference.
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